[thelist] CSS question..
David Dorward
evolt at david.us-lot.org
Tue Oct 8 16:28:02 CDT 2002
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:07:32PM -0700, rabbit at poorrabbit.com wrote:
> According to the CSS2 spec, the "position: fixed;" setting will cause
> an element uses that class to stay put, period. If you stick something
> on the top right of the screen, it stays there, even when scrolling.
> In explorer, this completely fails to work. In explorer, the Hello
> appears on the top left, and appears to be behaving as though
> position was set to "relative", which I THINK is the default.
Internet Explorer for Windows doesn't fully support CSS 2 (its only
a five year old specification, nowhere near enough time for
Microsoft to implement it).
IE Win32 reverts to 'static'
> I've tried looking for alternate way of doing this with explorer, or
> even a way of convincing explorer to at least put stuff where it
> belongs, so that even if it doesn't stay put, it at least gets there
> to begin with, such that in mozilla it behaves as I wish, and that in
> explorer it will degrade gracefully - without having to use browser
> checking code.
I haven't tried any of these, but they might do the job:
* http://www.mark.ac/help/sticky.html
* http://and.doxdesk.com/software/
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